The Kid I Didn’t Kill (Ellie Herman)
Taken from “About” in Herman’s blog:
My name is Ellie Herman. If you want to find out what I’m doing here and why, click here on why I’m writing this blog. I’ve been working on this project since the beginning of September….
As for my bio, I’m a writer and English teacher. From 2007 to 2013, I taught Drama, Advanced Drama, Creative Writing, English 11 and 9th grade Composition at a charter high school in South Los Angeles.
Before that, I was a writer/producer for many TV shows, including The Riches, Desperate Housewives, Chicago Hope and Newhart. My fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including The Massachusetts Review, The Missouri Review and the O.Henry Awards Collection.
I attended public schools in Winnetka, Illinois from kindergarten through high school and graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in English. I have a teaching credential from Cal State Northridge. My three children attended Oakwood School, a private school in the San Fernando Valley. My husband, David Levinson, is a writer who runs the non-profit Big Sunday. Our basset hound, Lou, appears ineducable, having channeled all of his energy into his good looks. We live in Los Angeles.
Posted on September 26, 2013
I once ran over a student in the parking lot. Gio was standing in front of my car, waving, grinning and doing a little hopping dance in apparent joy at seeing me, which made no sense because only an hour earlier he had brought my entire class to a standstill by taking a half-eaten pear and mashing it into the The Kid I Didn’t Kill (Ellie Herman) | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice:
